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“Frankly, I still don’t know what happened,” author Tom O’Neill says early on in Netflix’s new documentary Chaos: The Manson Murders. “But I know that what we were told didn’t happen.” It’s an auspicious start to the new film, directed by Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, The Unknown Known) …

Taylor Sheridan has a complete disrespect for one of my treasured possessions: downtime. In just seven years, Sheridan has created eight TV shows resulting in 164 episodes, the overwhelming majority of which he wrote entirely himself. Let that soak in for a moment. Here’s a quantitative but not qualitative comparison: …

When the U.S. version of The Office premiered on NBC 20 years ago, the reaction was rather muted, to put it charitably. The shadow of the original U.K. series created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant loomed very large, and the NBC pilot was almost a shot-for-shot remake of their …

In the opening scene of With Love, Meghan — Netflix’s new cooking and lifestyle show starring Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex — we are greeted by the woman herself, wearing a white beekeeper’s top and hood as she harvests honey in the garden of her home in Monetico, California. Or …

An unprecedented season of The Traitors, hosted by Alan Cumming, came to an end on Thursday night, revealing the winners of the reality competition show did not include any “gamers.” Instead of contestants from Big Brother, Survivor, or The Challenge making it to the end, four so-called Faithfuls — Dolores …

At one time, the Oscars were April Reign’s Super Bowl. She watched the annual nominations and awards ceremony religiously for decades. So, in January 2015, she tuned in as usual to see Chris Pine and Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the first Black female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts …

For the first 20 years of David Johansen‘s career — despite his immense role in kickstarting the punk movement as the frontman of New York Dolls and all of his great solo work that followed — genuine mainstream success seemed like an impossible dream. That changed in 1987, when he …

When music supervisor Gabe Hilfer was asked to join the White Lotus team for the show’s second season, he jumped at the chance. “It’s cool to be a part of a project that is water-cooler talk,” Hilfer tells Rolling Stone. “It’s a decent amount of work and we use a …

Rosebud Baker is an expert in making light of life’s most devastating moments. In her first Netflix special, The Mother Lode, Baker uses her gift for dark humor to talk about her difficulties getting pregnant, the agony of miscarriage, and the challenges of motherhood. Topics like death, grief, and addiction …

If there’s a moment that sums up the genius of Gene Hackman, it’s in Night Moves, the 1975 Arthur Penn neo-noir where he’s a washed-up football player turned detective. He’s on a case where he hunts a movie star’s runaway teenage daughter in the Florida Keys. But at one point …